The green arches / Joan Aiken -- The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui -- Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë -- The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon -- The thing in the pond / Paul Ernst -- Smart ice cream / Paul Jennings -- The pelican / Ann Pilling -- The adventures of Johnnie Waverly / Agatha Christie -- The tower / Carl Jung -- The scythe / Ray Bradbury -- A sea above the sky / Thomas Wright -- A vine on the house / Ambrose Bierce -- The master / Diana Wynne Jones -- King Arthur (an extract) / Sir Thomas Malory -- The whisperer / Vivien Alcock -- Texts / Ursula Le Guin -- The sky sea / Helen Cresswell -- The adventure of the Sussex vampire / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The bewitched jacket / Dino Buzzati

Provides a spooky collection of nineteen mysterious and suspenseful stories from a diverse ensemble of celebrated writers, including Agatha Christie, Diana Wynne Jones, and Joan Aiken

223 pages ; 19 cm

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